gable window
Americannoun
noun
Other Word Forms
Etymology
Origin of gable window
Middle English word dating back to 1300–50
Example Sentences
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By contrast, the "big room" at Bear Creek feels like a cathedral, with its struts and open roof beams, wood-framed windows, Oriental rug and 30-foot-high gable window funneling soft streams of light.
From Seattle Times ● Apr. 23, 2013
He walked down to the end of the loft and looked out the high gable window at the country below, the pieced land dead and gray, the fence, the road.
From "The Road" by Cormac McCarthy
She went over to the window, the small, shy gable window that looked on to the road.
From The Three Sisters by Sinclair, May
Meanwhile Anna and her brother, fearful lest the liquor might excite their guests, managed to go to the attic and let down a rope from the gable window.
From Modern Americans A Biographical School Reader for the Upper Grades by Sanford, Chester Milton
Butler rose silently from his bed, dressed himself, and, putting his shoes into his pockets, stole in his stockinged feet to the little gable window at the further end of his apartment.
From Horse-Shoe Robinson A Tale of the Tory Ascendency by Kennedy, John Pendleton
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